Blacks In The KKK. Wait. What?
Over 20,000 blacks joined the KKK. Think about it, the easiest way for the KKK to spy on a black community would be to have the people that worked there do it.
Trying to find the true history of the KKK is like pulling teeth. The group has been turned into a comic book villain and neither the left or the right remembers the true history. Tell a racist skinhead or klansman there were blacks who worked for and were in the klan and their heads will explode. Tell a so-called leftist (actually just an apologist for the DNC) and they will explain the parties switched sides in 1964 and everything that happened during segregation were the actions of future Republicans. Remind them it wasn’t until the 1990’s that Republicans took the Congress and they quickly change the subject.
I began studying the history of the KKK at the age of 15. I lived in Atlanta, Georgia and had been passing out flyers at the local high school, Grady, against the Vietnam War. ROTC was mandatory in the Atlanta high school system at the time and I wanted it to be made a choice to join. This would lead me to becoming the high school correspondent for THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD underground newspaper. Well one day 2 men showed up at a class I was in and asked the teacher to see me. I went out to the hall and one of them gave me this:
The next day I had written up the incident in a flyer and passed it out in school!
Over the years as I studied the KKK I found a very complex group that had been hand in glove in the Democratic Party. But I was shocked to discover that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, spoke at Klan halls! The suffragette movement for the vote for women, started in the KKK! I discovered the Klan feared Blacks would get the vote and to counter this they wanted women to vote. This is why the suffragette movement in America never had Black women in their marches, and why the women always wore white. I would bet you a dollar to a donut that when Democratic women don white to honor those klanswomen, they have no idea they are donning a form of klan robes. In the U.S. it wasn’t a struggle for women to vote, it was a struggle for white women to vote.
Women in the KKK had benefits women not in the group didn’t have. They could open bank accounts at Klan banks (there were banks run by the Klan in the 1920’s), they could get a loan without a male co-signer. They could run their own business. Women not in the Klan couldn’t do any of these things. Out of all the literature about the KKK, there is only one book on the women of the group; the Klan’s role in starting the suffragette movement, the Klan’s role in starting birth control and planned parenthood. For obvious reasons, Democrats do not want to mention any of this.
This is where women and Black members cross paths. In the only book about women in the Klan we find:
Women of the Klan, Racism and Gender in the 1920's", by Kathleen M. Blee. (1991, University of California Press). On page 169, we find the passage, " Even more strangely, the Klan tried to organize an order of Black Protestants, a Klan "Colored division" in Indiana and other states. Despite promises that the new order would have "all the rights of membership" of the White Klan, much preparation went into ensuring that the values of white supremacy would be preserved as the Klan expanded its racial base. The group was to wear red robes, white capes, and blue masks and was prohibited from being seen in public with White Klansmen or handling any membership funds."
This is a very rare photo of the KKK in a black church. When a pastor joined the Klan his church received the protection of the KKK. To show this, the Klan would surround the Pastor as in this photo and give all the parishioners hams and Turkeys for all the holidays. Members of the church could get jobs from Klansmen. If they worked in whites homes as domestic help, they were expected to spy on the white families to discover if they were Republican, drank or cheated on their spouses. 1/3 of people lynched until the KKK banned the practice were white Republicans! Try getting a Democrat to admit that!
The Klan ran rodeos, banks, carnies, restaurants, companies- all of which has been erased from history.
Over 20,000 blacks joined the KKK. Think about it, the easiest way for the KKK to spy on a black community would be to have the people that worked there do it. If there was a white person suspected of being Catholic or supporting unions or drinking ( the Klan started the prohibition movement), get a house servant in the home to watch them. They were also hired by Klan companies and protected. If a white mistreated blacks or a black Klansman who was believed to be "innocent", that white person was in for a world of hurt. Pulitzer Prize winning author Studs Terkel: Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:
"The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn't anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man's. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ....... One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn't give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they'd have dome the same thing. They didn't go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking."
If the truth is out there- I will find it!
What they won't teach in schools: there were black members of the KKK
The Progressive movement has a real problem with teaching about the KKK. That's because from the idea of boycotting chains over mom and pop stores, to the origins of the feminist movements- all roads lead back to the Klan. Not even members of the KKK today have any idea what their history is. The KKK is reduced to being cartoon figures for one simple reason- all studies lead directly back to the Democratic Party. What you are about to read would shock liberals, but it would also shock modern Klansmen!
Now read what every Democrat and Klansman prays you never read.....
At least 20,000 Blacks joined the original Ku Klux Klan!
"The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920's. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."
Very interesting. In the 1920's, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living as well as many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era. J.A. Rogers would have been able to interview many. Why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And if he did make it up there would have been plenty of people who would have objected. His book would not have survived to this day. Yet, it did.
Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography", by Jack Hurst. On page 305 we find this interesting quote: "...(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a "Colored Democratic Club" under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway - - who according to an account in the Appeal, "made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats."
So, the Klan not only accepted and recruited Blacks in some areas, but a Klan leader made a motion that White men give employment and protection to “Colored democrats”. That in itself speaks volumes. Yes, volumes of ignored facts of Klan, African-American, and American history.
When the Klan was revived in 1915 it was originally just for Protestant White men. In time the Klan added the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, teenager and children's groups, groups for the foreign born and Colored men.
Now to further add to this my next source of information is from the KKK, itself. In their book, "K.K.K. Friend or Foe: Which?", by attorney Blaine Mast and published in 1924 a chapter is dedicated to discussing the KKK and its relationship to the Black population. In this chapter we see the passage:
"The KKK claims that there is no good reason why the Colored people may not form a Ku Klux Klan of their own, and, as far as the writer knows, such an institution may exist in America. Indeed, we were credibly informed that some months ago a Klan gathering took place in an adjoining state, which was attended by some 20 colored men, for a general invitation had been extended. Those Negroes were so favorably impressed with what a distinguished speaker said, and with the general character and demeanor of the meeting, that they approached the speaker and others in authority and inquired if it were not possible for the Colored people to form a Klan of their own race. If they could get permission to organize they were anxious to do so and hoped for assistance from the officers of the KKK. So, in this particular instance, at least, some Colored men had no fear in associating with Klansmen."
The chapter then went on to outline the ground work for such a Black Klan. It is of interest that in the same book, another chapter is dedicated to discussing the possible formation of a Jewish branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:
"The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn't anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man's. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ....... One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn't give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they'd have dome the same thing. They didn't go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking."
Older Democrats do proudly speak of fighting integration (not realizing they are further showing there was no party switch in 1964): ‘Deep personal relationships’: Joe Biden’s six segregationist friends. Joe Biden’s long history of friendships with segregationists in the U.S. Senate is suddenly emerging as a political issue after the presidential candidate this week fondly recalled working with two racists who were his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill in the 1970s.
Through his nearly five decades in politics, Biden, 76, has praised or reminisced about working cordially with every major segregationist who served alongside him in the Senate, according to a Washington Examiner analysis based on a list of key segregation proponents compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative. In all, Biden has spoken warmly of or boasted about his ability to work with six men on the list. He has lauded South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond — who Biden called “one of my closest friends” — and Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who Biden worked with on legislation to prevent court-ordered desegregation busing. He has also expressed admiration for Sens. John Stennis, James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge. He has even praised George Wallace, an Alabama governor and segregationist presidential candidate.
Now, nearly 50 years after Biden was first elected to political office, all six men are dead, but the former vice president’s wistful reminiscences of them over the years has suddenly brought them to the fore of the 2020 campaign. He worked with some of them to oppose busing (a way of forcing the desegregation of schools) and others on anti-crime legislation that disproportionately affected African Americans.
The United States supported Truth Commissions at the end of apartheid, at the end of the troubles in Ireland and other troubled regions around the world. Yet when segregation ended, no such commission has ever occurred here in the United States. How did segregation work in the U.S.? What were our race laws? Michael Flores returns to hold a Truth Commission at the College of Complexes, on segregation's effects, wounds and international influence.
Behind the paywall: THE BIRTH OF A NATION sound version re-edited by DW Griffith in 1933, how the movie led to the creation of the NAACP and Griffith gives an interview defending the movie (rumors he later denounced the film are false).
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